Harry Potter producer David Heyman to produce adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World

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Warner Bros has optioned the 1962 J.G. Ballard novel The Drowned World for Heyday Films. Harry Potter series producer David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford will be the producers for Heyday, and Warner Bros’ Jon Berg is overseeing it.

Ballard’s previous novel to film adaptations include the David Cronenberg-directed Crash, and the Steven Spielberg-directed Empire Of The Sun.

After the overwhelming success of the Harry Potter film series, producer David Heyman has been searching for the next great adaptation. He’s already got a Paddington Bear project, a feature version of the short sci-fi film True Skin, Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity and adaptations of The Light between Oceans and The Odyssey. Heyman’s latest acquisition for Warner Bros. is the 1962 post-apocalyptic thriller The Drowned World, from author J.G. Ballard.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/warner-bros-heyday-to-turn-j-g-ballards-the-drowned-world-into-feature/

http://collider.com/david-heyman-the-drowned-world/